During the investigation, the police found that the accused is actually a woman dressed up as a man who abused minor girls using sex toys.

A 17-year-old girl filed a sexual abuse complaint in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh against a 32-year-old man named Sai Ramesh Reddy. However, it turned out that the accused was a woman dressed as a man.

During the investigation, the police found that the accused is actually a woman dressed up as a man who abused minor girls using sex toys.

Sumalatha disguised as Sai Ramesh Reddy used to call the potential woman and girls in male voice and after trapping, she used to invite them to the their house, sedate the girl/woman and sexually abuse the victim by using sex toys.

Police have also arrested a local mobile sim card seller Vamsi Krishna for providing numbers of girls to the couple.

According to the Ongole DSP B Ravi Chandra, the woman liked wearing men's clothes and kept short hair. She had been married twice before marrying a 47-year-old man in Andhra Pradesh's Ongole town in 2016. Hearing of the allegations against his wife, the accused's husband jumped to his death.

DSP B Ravi Chandra said that the accused would get acquainted with minor girls and allegedly trap them into starting an intimate relationship with her.

He also added that the accused had planned to live with the minor victim along with her husband in the same house. For this, she convinced a 28-year-old male friend of her to stage a fake marriage with the victim. The accused, along with her friend, then approached the police for protection from the minor's parents. But the police handed over the 17-year-old girl to her parents as she was a minor.

The victim told of her ordeal to her parents who then approached the police. The woman has been arrested under sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act.

According to the officials, the victim still believes that the woman and Sai Ramesh Reddy are two different people.

Husband leaps to death

During a raid at the house on Friday of the accused, the 47-year-old husband of the 32-year-old accused leapt to his death from a three-storey building after his wife was accused of sexually abusing minor girls.

The police reported that the accused wife would dress up as a man and abuse minor girls using sex toys.

The police also found some of the sex toys in a large bag during the raid. While the cops were interrogating the couple, the man ran to the top of the building and jumped.